What are our readers to make of the slow-down in global surface temperature rise after 1998? What’s often heard in my neck of the woods is something along the lines of what Dr. Neil Frank, former KHOU-TV meteorologist and beloved Houston personality, wrote in the Houston Chronicle last Friday: “If global warming will be […]

Introduction by Michael Quirke: As a layman trying to understand the climate change issue, I have been on the hunt for a fair and readable accounting of the history of climate science [and the science of climate change] for the CCNF Scientist Community and readers to discuss. In a previous post, I presented a […]

The following graphics and block quotes are from a recent report on the economic risks of climate change by the Risky Business Project. The video toward the end of the post is from the Risky Business website. For more about the report and its authors, and the heavyweights in the financial world backing the project, […]

A note by Michael Quirke: I have always found that one of the best ways to learn about the present is to look to the past, so for this post we’ll be looking back in time to explore the history of climate change science. For instance, when was man-made climate change first hypothesized? When did it become an […]

Welcome to the new fact checker/commentary section of CCNF 2.0! In this section, scientists in the CCNF Scientist Community (and their guests) comment on or fact check excerpts of stories on climate change from the outside media. The material, which is selected by the journalist (yours truly), comprises “anything influencing […]

Summary of initial comments (paraphrases and quotes): Dr. Andrew Dessler: “I really liked this article and I learned a few things — such as the fact that Cowtan and Way are not climate scientists, but are contributors to Skeptical Science.” Will add one point: “While I accept their adjustment, this does not […]